STUDY OF HISTORY
THIS and THAT!
BIG HISTORY
CALENDARS
TIME
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The term used to describe how historians look for why an event happened.
What is causation?
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The ratio of the distance on a timeline to the actual number of years represented.
What is scale?
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~13.8 billion
What is the approximate age of our universe?
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The common calendar used around the business world today and in America.
What is the Gregorian calendar?
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a way of organizing history chronologically.
What is a timeline?
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The term historians use to describe the small incremental differences that occur in a place over long periods.
What is "change over time"?
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The term used to describe the period of days that the moon appears to be growing "fuller" in the sky.
What is the waxing of the moon?
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The threshold only occured about 8,000-10,000 years ago, but totally changed human lifestyle.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
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BCE
What letters are used to abbreviate a date that is "Before the Common Era"?
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A thousand years
What is a millennium?
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The term historians use to describe a time period where there are few social, political, cultural, economic, and/or environmental changes in a place.
What is continuity?
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Putting events in time order.
What is chronolgical reasoning?
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The term for an event that is so big and brings such change that the universe, the earth, or humanity will never be the same.
What is a threshold of increasing complexity?
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The three general types of calendars that ancient mankind developed to keep track of time using either our movement around the sun, the moon's movenments around the earth, or a combination.
What is a solar calendar, a lunar calendar, and a lunisolar calendar?
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The vast scale of time used to measure earth's ~4.6 billion year history.
What is Geologic time?
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The phrase historians use to describe how events are grouped using social, political, economic, cultural, and/or environmental commonalities.
What is "periodization of events."
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The time of the year where the sun's rays hit the earth at a right angle at the equator producing equal day and night in each hemisphere.
What are the equinoxes?
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The threshold used to mark the beginning of everything according the Modern Scientific origin story.
What is The Big Bang?
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AD and what it means
What is Anno Domini, which means "Year of Our Lord" and refers to the year Jesus was born?
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An event that occurs twice a year and marks the direct angle of the sun's rays over the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the solstices?
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Literallly means the "writing of history" and refers to the way historians have written history books, journals, etc. and how biases of the time period, age, ethnic, religious, or other aspects of their background might influence their perspective.
What is Historiography?
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Both the Buddhist and Muslim calendar are this type.
What is a lunar calendar?
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The process which allowed humans to transmit information across regions and generations.
What is collective learning?
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This person called for the creation of a new calendar in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar.
Who was Pope Gregory XIII?
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The name of the century in which Julius Ceaser was stabbed in 44BC.
What is the 1st century BC?
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